title: The Australian contribution to the literature on atypical antipsychotic drugs: a bibliometric study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We performed a bibliometric study on scientific publications on atypical antipsychotic drugs (AADs) from Australia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using the EMBASE and MEDLINE databases, we chose those documents produced in Australia between 1993 and 2011, whose title included the descriptors atypic* (atypical*), antipsychotic*, second-generation antipsychotic*, clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, ziprasidone, quetiapine, sertindole, aripiprazole, paliperidone, amisulpride, zotepine, asenapine, iloperidone, lurasidone, perospirone and blonanserin. We applied bibliometric indicators of production as well as dispersion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified 438 relevant publications. The most widely studied AADs were clozapine (162 documents), olanzapine (103), risperidone (77) and quetiapine (42). There was a lack of exponential growth in publications over time, indicated by non-fulfilment of Price's Law (correlation coefficient r=0.9195 after exponential adjustment vs. r=0.9253 after linear adjustment). Publications appeared in 148 different journals, with four of the top nine journals having an impact factor greater than 3; 84 of the articles appeared in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite Australian publications on AADs appearing in reasonably high impact journals, most were confined to a single Australian psychiatry journal and overall publications did not show exponential growth over the period studied. This might reflect, inter alia, the relative paucity of medication trials being performed in Australia.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, and Director of International Doctoral School, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain. francisco.lopez.munoz@gmail.com
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: López-Muñoz
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Castle
authors.forename: Winston
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Lorena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huelves
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pérez-Nieto
authors.forename: Concha
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Noriega
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rubio
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: Cecilio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Álamo
mesh_terms: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001315:Australia; D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents
keywords: Australia; atypical antipsychotics; bibliometry; bipolar disorder; schizophrenia